Claw and probe core (and MJ ?)

[Warzouz]

I accepted 4 "recover" missions around Minmus. I finally decided to do them.

I built 4 "grabbers" (7 tons each) : I've no pictures but their design is quite straight forward. A claw, a probe core (the best 1.25m), battery, fix solar, a 2.5m heat shield. Then an engine ministage with RCS, encounter and return fuel and a Terrier.

The 4 grabbers were stitched to a rocket.

I decoupled each grabber manually (not using staging) because I wanted to handle them properly. Recoverable parts where on very different orbits and sometimes clockwise.

Before grabing the parts, there was something strange (Minmus encounter, rendez-vous...).

- Most of sounds except musique (including engines) were absent. Even Chatterer background sounds was mute.

- MechJeb wasn't able to warp and execute any node but was able to orient to nodes.

3 of the 4 recoverables had a command unit (cuploa, cockpit). Sound and MechJeb control came back as I grabbed them., even when I reset the "control from here" to the probe core.

The last part was a tank. Sound didn't come back on that one.

I did launch quite some probes and didn't got that. It's the first time I used the Claw, though...

Have you exeperienced that ?

Edited June 18, 2015 by Warzouz